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John Gedeon, an Educational Technologist from the University of the West Indies (Trinidad and Tobago), recently contacted me with a question about my opinion regarding the definitions for courses that have different degrees of web-involvement.
As he has discovered there is a great deal of overlap and confusion in the lexicon describing distance learning courses especially when technology is involved. In my mind, there are only 3 types of 'web courses':
1. Web-enhanced F2F. I define this as a face-to-face (F2F) classroom course with a web technology as a resources for it (typically a web-page or LMS). This web-page houses content and resources that support the F2F onsite course.
2. Web-based Online. I define this as an exclusively non-classroom course where some web technology (typically a website, email distribution system or LMS, etc.) fully supports all the infrastructure required for students to complete their work. Students never meet each other, or the instructor, F2F.
3. Hybrid F2F:Online. A mixture of both Web-enhanced F2F and Web-based Online such that at some point during the length of the term students must meet in class AND at some point during the the length of the term students must conduct their work online using some web technology.
What do you think about my three types? Can you think of a 4th type? Did I miss anything here? If so, please leave a comment by clicking 'comment' below.


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Available from the UD-REC website are weed management guides for assistance in weed control in corn, soybeans, or forages.
There is a separate guide for each commodity. The first half of the corn and soybean guides deal with soil-applied herbicides and the second half is for postemergence herbicides. These guides have pre-mixes and what is in the pre-mix, expanded weed control tables, information on application timing, comments for each of the herbicides, and much more. The forage guides cover alfalfa as well as grass forages.


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The City of Lacombe gets their water from the Red Deer Treatment Plant via a regional water line connecting Blackfalds, Lacombe and Ponoka.
Yes. The water that leaves the City of Red Deer Treatment Plant meets and exceeds all of the standards contained in the "Guidelines for Canadian Drinking Water Quality." The City of Lacombe frequently tests the water for quality and follows all provincial guidelines to ensure the water is safe.
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INDIANAPOLIS -- The draft class of 2011 is starting to take shape at the NFL Scouting Combine, and I had a bird's-eye view Sunday.
The first thing that was loud and clear was teams in search of a solid quarterback in this draft have some concerns after watching the drills Sunday morning. Most teams with a QB need have a level of anxiety about this year's class. As one general manager said, "whatever Kevin Kolb was worth yesterday, he's worth more tonight."
Of course, if there isn't a new CBA prior to the draft, teams will not be able to trade with the Eagles for Kolb. Their challenge will be to draft a quarterback, or pass and hope another opportunity arises to trade for a guy like Kolb. Teams might have to reach for a quarterback in this draft and that is a dangerous business.
Rams GM Billy Devaney and Bucs GM Mark Dominik have to be relieved that they got their signal-caller in recent years. In fact, each expressed how happy they were not to be in the quarterback business.
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Teams in search of players capable of getting after the quarterback are in luck. This draft class features several prospects who can fill the bill, writes Steve Wyche.**More ...**
Bucs' approach
Speaking of Tampa Bay, I had a very interesting conversation with Dominik about how his team handles the combine activities. Dominik said that when the team brings prospects in for a 15-minute interview in Indianapolis, they occasionally use game tape for the player to comment on. However, the Bucs prefer to put the guys up on the grease board where there are no hints about what is expected of each player and get them to describe through diagrams and conversation what they are expected to do in certain situations. Dominik feels, and I agree, that it gives the young men little chance to prepare for the questions and they have to "know it" to describe it.
Dominik went on to tell me how his scouting staff will meet a year before a draft class, project where the depth might be a year away and then make calculated decisions on an upcoming draft based on information they gather for the following draft. When I said it's no secret the Buccaneers need help in a few defensive areas, Dominik pointed to that issue as one his staff discussed a year ago and now feel great about the potential talent in this draft to satisfy their needs. Tampa Bay needs pass rushers, a linebacker and a safety, and it looks like it will fill those holes early in the draft.
I found it interesting that even though the Buccaneers are very much a Tampa-2 defense, they are looking at the hybrid defensive end/linebacker types because they are playing more three-man front packages in passing situations. It seems every team is looking very closely at what the Packers and Steelers used to get to the Super Bowl. Keep an eye on draftable players like Robert Quinn, Ryan Kerrigan, Brooks Reed, Aldon Smith, among others.
WRs sprint into spotlight
I got a chance to sit in a team luxury box when the receivers were running their 40-yard dashes and working out Sunday. There was a very favorable reaction to Alabama's Julio Jones, who suggested to me the day before that he just might break the 4.4 barrier, which he did (4.39). Now there are at least two first-round receivers when you include Georgia's A.J. Green. The gap between the two players has been closed, and the race is on for the top spot.
St. Louis and Washington have to be thrilled with what transpired, and other teams are equally happy about Pittsburgh's Jonathan Baldwin and Maryland's Torrey Smith It's still too early to tell, but I definitely caught some buzz about four receivers potentially going in the first round.
Fairley as team leader
My one-on-one session with players Sunday was highlighted by three defenders trying to improve their draft stock, and there's little doubt they are achieving their goal. First and foremost, Auburn defensive tackle Nick Fairley stopped by to talk football, and -- as always -- was so interesting.
He got into a story about halftime of the Alabama game when Auburn was behind and struggling. The coaches went off to a side room to discuss adjustments and the locker room was real quiet, almost like a feeling of defeat. Fairley said that at first Cam Newton spoke, and he followed with his own version of what had to be done to turn things around.
Sooner or later, Fairley is going to be leading an NFL locker room in the same situation. We also talked about the experience of not having the grades to go Division 1 out of high school and being humbled by the junior college experience. He might be from the same town (Mobile, Ala.) as JaMarcus Russell, but I don't think he's going to handle his NFL opportunity the same way.
Corners bring size, talent
Two of the top cornerbacks spent some time discussing their combine experience, Nebraska's Prince Amukamara and Colorado's Jimmy Smith. One thing I can say about these two guys, they have impressive size for the position, especially Smith (6-2, 211 pounds).
Smith only had three interceptions at Colorado, but he told me about the team's "Gatorade" award given out every week to the defensive player who drives an opponent right off the field and practically into the bench area. He won it 17 times, which explains why he didn't have to have many picks to make an impact.
Amukamara was a quiet guy, easy to talk to, and appeared very coachable. When I confronted him about the rumors he might run a slow 40 and be thought of as a safety at his size (6-0, 206 pounds), he looked at me just like Julio Jones did the day before and said, "We'll see about that tomorrow."
With the number of big receivers in the NFL and teams throwing the ball close to 40 times a game, these giant corners are the wave of the future. Add LSU's Patrick Peterson and Texas' Aaron Williams and at least four teams will satisfy their corner need in the first round.


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Heather Corinna replies:I'm a lesbian in my early twenties and I've heard the idea of the "vaginal orgasm" vs "clitoral orgasm" debunked here. But I'm feeling confused about how to reconcile that with my experience that orgasms when I'm stimulated in different ways feel different. Like, when just my clit is being stimulated, I come in one way, and when the walls of my vagina are being stroked, it's like a different kind of orgasm builds up--from deeper inside. The second kind tends to go on for longer, and be less "piercing" than orgasms where it's just my external clitoris being stimulated. Generally, those second ones feel more "complete" too. Both kinds feel good--I'm not knocking either one--but saying one feels more clitoral and one feels more vaginal feels like an accurate description. Do other people have this experience? Also, I know Freud's idea about "vaginal orgasms" being more "mature" than "clitoral orgasms" is all messed up. But I've heard some older women talking about orgasms coming "more from inside" as they got older. Is there any evidence or do you have any reason to believe that this is true for many women? I guess part of what I'm asking is, "am I imagining this difference?" When I've read that the idea of "vaginal orgasms" and "clitoral orgasms" is BS, that's seemed pretty cool and liberating. And yet, I do seem to experience these different kinds of orgasms. Can you help me understand all this? Thanks a lot.
These are excellent questions, and I don't think it's surprising at all that this all feels confusing. We unfortunately have a very, very long history of some profound misunderstandings of sexual anatomy and sexual response and a relatively short history of study and comprehensive education and information about them. You don't need me to tell you that's hardly a winning combination for an easy understanding.
I expect that we're all going to be having conversations like this, and continued education about this for a long time still, which will probably involve a whole lot of saying, hearing, reading and writing the same kinds of things over and over again, as well as potentially revising all of that from time to time, since study about sexual pleasure regarding the vulva and vagina really is still in its infancy. It's hardly an easy process to move out of the kind of history around all of this, nor an easy process to unlearn poor or inaccurate frameworks and learn and keep adapting new ones.
Before I say anything else, I want to make clear that how any of us experience sex (or heck, anything in life) is... well, how we experience it. We don't imagine our experiences: what we feel is what we feel; how we feel something is how we feel something. Sometimes our experiences will match or be similar to those of other people. Sometimes they won't. Sometimes our experiences are so varied all by themselves that one set of our own experiences won't match another, either from one time of life to another, or even from day to day. But I've no doubt that what you are feeling and experiencing is what you are feeling and experiencing. These feelings and experiences are subjective -- they're about us, not other people, about our bodies, not everyone's bodies -- and they get to be that way.
I'd say that making more sense of this involves understanding and accepting three primary things: 1) Sexual response and orgasm is about much, much, much more than genitals. In fact, orgasm is, in a very core way, barely about genitals at all, and sexual response is usually only as much about genitals as any sex eliciting those responses is about genitals. Orgasm doesn't happen in or on the genitals, even though its effects are often felt there in addition to other sites. By all means, orgasms "come from the inside" but not of our genitals. They come from the inside of our brains and central nervous systems, and all the parts of our bodies those things can impact, every time, for everyone.
2) Orgasm can feel all kinds of ways, based on many different variables, and usually quite a few at any given time. One of those variables is what kinds of physical stimulation are occurring and to what body parts. This isn't about there being different "kinds" of orgasm, though. Orgasm is orgasm is orgasm. Orgasm can feel different ways for different people -- or for any one person from one time to another -- but that's not about there being different "types" of orgasm based on body parts. Rather than thinking of orgasm as "vaginal" or "clitoral" it makes more sense -- and doesn't conflict with what we know to be true about orgasm and these parts -- to think instead of orgasm as feeling, as you have experienced it, one way for you when it involves or centers on external clitoral stimulation, and feeling another way when it involves or centers around vaginal stimulation, to the degree that you do and can separate those things, which gets us to...
3) A total separation between the vagina and clitoris is mostly artificial, often based on a misunderstanding or an incomplete understanding of what, where and how big the clitoris really is. In a word, that separation is often largely based on thinking the clitoris to be only the clitoral glands and hood -- the external portions -- when, in fact, those are only two parts of the whole clitoris, and that no part of the clitoris has anything to do with the vagina, and vice-versa, when none of those things are true. We can't really separate the vagina from that and other anatomy because the internal portions of the clitoris surround the vaginal opening and canal, and most of the vaginal canal has few sensory nerve endings, so a person wouldn't feel much without those internal portions of the clitoris, as well as the muscles, organs and nerve endings also surrounding the vagina outside of it.
I'll walk you through more of the details about those core issues now, and how they apply to you and what you're saying.
The way many people understand sex and think they experience it is about genitals. More people than not define sex as being genital -- though that probably has a lot to do with having it defined that way for them -- and if genitals aren't involved (even if sexual feelings and drives and aims are) often don't consider something to be sex.
I say "think they experience" because it's actually very, very difficult -- if not impossible -- if we're just talking about body parts, to engage in sex that ONLY involves genital stimulation. Think about it: even if you're masturbating alone, using your fingers to stimulate your genitals, your fingers are at least being stimulated (and fingers have a ton of sensory nerve endings). You might also be touching other parts of your body, too. With a partner, it's pretty hard not to have contact with anything but genitals when we're touching each other. Again, hands and fingers are often involved in touch at some point, as often are our mouths, hips, torsos, thighs, buttocks, the works.
Just like genitals, all of those body parts have sensory nerve endings: they feel things, which transmit signals to our central nervous system, which processes and then returns signals to the rest of our bodies, like to our endocrine and cardiovascular system, and then they keep going back and forth in their game of sexual and sensory ping-pong that both responds to and co-authors what we feel physically and emotionally and intellectually.
What orgasm is mostly about and mostly involves are our brains and central nervous systems. If it wasn't, every time someone touched our bodies in the same place or a similar way, it'd feel the same. A visit to your OB/GYN may involve some of the same things a girlfriend does, but it usually feels very different. Our response to sexual assault -- not just emotionally, but physically -- is often (not always, but most typically) very different. We respond differently to sexual stimulation when we're rested than when we're not, when we're more or less emotionally open, when we have different feelings about what's going on or with whom it's going on. And sometimes we may have a bigger sexual response to a kiss or being stroked on the neck than we do to any kind of genital touching. All of this is because our sexual response is about so much more than just genitals or about having a given part of our genitals touched.
A young sex educator I like a lot simplifies all of this very well by simply saying that orgasm is about brains and skin.
When I present sex ed lectures, my favorite question to ask participants is: "What are the two largest sexual organs?"
The answer? Brain and Skin. Stimulating skin sends signals to the brain, which processes the sensations and releases the appropriate neurotransmitters. That's an orgasm. No clits, vaginas or G-spots to define it.
In other words, orgasm is about our brains and central nervous systems, and then about all the ways those things can be triggered by and respond (or not) to any and all of our body parts where gazillions of nerve endings are. This gets a little trickier when we're talking about sex where there is no physical touch at all, mind, so for now, let's just stick to sex where some kind of touching is happening.
Orgasm is an autonomic physiologic response to various kinds of stimulation; often that stimulation is a kind which someone experiences or perceives as sexual, but not always. To translate that for you, that means it's an event mostly about our autonomic nervous system, a system which engages SO much of our bodies, including the organs in and on our pelvises. It's also not a system we can really control. Most typically, orgasm is recognized as happening in a medical sense when a series of contractions occur in and around the pelvis and some of its organs, like the uterus and testes, but that's only one thing that tends to happen with orgasm, not the only thing (and that also has a good deal to do with the way people define and study sex as being about genitals).
When people orgasm and respond sexually otherwise (like by getting more and more aroused), it's something happening throughout the whole body, usually because of things that have been happening throughout the whole body, often including the genitals, and which also has genital effects, as well as other effects to our brains and other body parts, like increased sensitivity or hypersensitivity and often a flood of neurochemicals that make us feel temporarily different during and after orgasm than we did before. To boot, it's pretty common that the more of our bodies and minds we engage consciously in sex, the more we're going to feel those whole-body effects. If we focus mostly or solely on genitals, we can be prone to experience orgasm as feeling more specifically genital.
If we wanted to attach one body part to orgasm as is often done with terms like "vaginal orgasm" and be accurate, the only way we could would be to call all orgasms "brain orgasms."
So, no matter how you slice it, it's just not very accurate to term orgasm as vaginal or clitoral. Personally, I think that kind of shorthand (which we usually only hear around those body parts, by the way: ever hear someone talk about a penis orgasm?) is one common cultural barrier to orgasm for people and also to holistic sex lives where people can really learn -- or rather, not unlearn -- how to enjoy their whole bodies and see all body parts as well as feelings as sites of and potential team players in, pleasure. There are so many reasons thinking more along those lines would potentially benefit people. I know as a queer person you can probably appreciate how that could be a support for not conceptualizing queer sex that doesn't include intercourse as "not real." Think, too, about how that could impact people with disabilities, especially those which take genital sex off the table, or even helping people to understand the differences between sex that's about mutual pleasure and abuse or assault.
That said, I think it's important to recognize that choosing what language to use is a lot more important when you're working as a sex educator than it is when you're in your bedroom, in your personal sex life, in your own head or talking to lovers. I don't want you to get the idea that I think some kind of sexual apocalypse will happen if you choose to call your different experiences with orgasm what you do, or that you'll somehow be responsible for sexuality going retrograde on us. In our personal sexual lives, we get to choose whatever language feels most true, comfortable (and exciting!) for us, and which hopefully also communicates what we want and enjoy well with any partners. What someone like me says in the context of my work about things like this ideally should apply to as many people as possible: what you or I say in the context of our bedrooms only has to apply to us and anyone we're sharing them with.
Let's check in with that anatomy stuff, too. You've probably already seen the following articles that explain the accurate anatomy of the clitoris and the vagina, and then how sexual anatomy looks when we're talking about pleasure, rather than reproduction, but if you haven't, let me hook you up:
- With Pleasure: A View of Whole Sexual Anatomy for Every Body
- Innies & Outies: The Vagina, Clitoris, Uterus and More
- Let's Get Metaphysical: The Etiquette of Entry
When what you're experiencing with vaginal stimulation is going to be about the vagina but also, especially when you're talking about more than the front 1/3rd of it -- the internal portions of the clitoris and everything else that can put pressure on the vaginal canal from both inside the body and whatever it is that is inside the vagina at a given time. That not only includes the internal portions of the clitoris, but also a bunch of nerve bundles not part of the vagina, but awfully nearby, and other muscles and organs around it.
It's likely feeling more "complete" to you and others who voice that because you're getting stimulus to more than once place, engaging BOTH your vagina and your clitoris, as well as other parts, rather than mostly or only one part of the clitoris.
At the same time, that might maks you then stop and wonder, then, why a majority of women don't reach orgasm from intercourse alone than from external clitoral stimulus.
When we're just talking physics, that has to do with the fact that there are WAY more sensory nerve endings in the much-smaller space of the external clitoris than there are in that bigger picture of the whole clitoris and the vagina. That's also a big part of why most people with this anatomy who can experience orgasm usually won't reach orgasm as quickly if the external clitoris doesn't get at least some quality time, either on its own, or in conjunction to vaginal and internal clitoral stimulation. That also can perhaps help you make sense of the difference you feel between "piercing" sensations and feelings that might feel fuller, but less distinct or intense in some ways.
Think about it like wasabi, or something else super-spicy. If you take a dab and mix it in a big pot of something, that dish will probably taste a little spicy, but it'll be subtle. But if you put the same sized dab directly into your mouth, undiluted, you can burn your freaking mouth off. The whole of the clitoris -- and what it surrounds, namely, the vaginal canal -- are like the whole pot, whereas the glans is like that undiluted dab.
Of course, it's probably obvious when you revisit what we were talking about in terms of our brains that we also can't separate how people feel, emotionally, about what's happening physically. For example, a lot of people put a very high value on vaginal intercourse, and even if they don't feel a lot physically from it, might deeply enjoy it, want to engage in it and reach orgasm that way because it is emotionally, spiritually or interpersonally meaningful for them.
Conversely, when we talk about the fact that the majority of people with vaginas don't experience orgasm from intercourse alone (we might see the same stats with other kinds of vaginal entry, but I'd guess the rate is higher for other sorts), that really is what that means: from intercourse alone, without any, or with very little of, other kinds of stimulation, physical and interpersonal. While some of that issue is going to be about anatomy, some of it is going to be about emotions, conceptualizations of sex and oneself as sexual and what's going on with partners. If someone is just sticking one body part into another and scooting around for a few minutes, with little to any other kinds of touch, or little to any interpersonal interaction, it's not going to feel very exciting for most people on the receiving end most of the time. And that is, unfortunately, a reality for plenty of receptive partners.
I linked you up there to a piece where we talk about the bigger picture of someone entering someone else's body, or people even entering their own, and I don't think we can dismiss that or discount it's potential weight. Having a partner be inside our bodies, or exploring inside our bodies is -- I'm not sure if I intend a pun here or not -- deep stuff. That doesn't mean external stimulation isn't, but. The point is that some of those deeper feelings are often, literally and symbolically, deeper feelings, when we're talking about sex that involves being inside people's bodies or having someone or something inside our bodies.
You bring up older women talking about this differently. Women outside their teens and twenties often do report different experiences with sex and orgasm compared to when they were younger, and will often say that things like reaching orgasm became easier, orgasm or arousal feel like a deeper or richer experience, or the things that get them to orgasm are less limited than they used to be. But what we know that to often be about isn't just things like hormones or body parts, but things like improved body image and comfort with -- including knowledge of -- one's body, better communication skills and assertiveness with partners, and doing better at choosing partners who are really seeking out mutual pleasure. So, this issue is, yet again, about more than genitals or parts.
So. Where does that leave you?
I think it might leave you pretty much where you started, because I think you had more of a hold on all this than you thought. It leaves you knowing that in a broad way, politically, and when it comes to the accuracy of discussion about orgasm and sexual response, terms like "vaginal orgasm" and "clitoral orgasm" aren't sound. But it also leaves you understanding -- hopefully -- that orgasm can feel any number of ways, and one of the variables in the different ways it can feel is often about different kinds of stimulus, but also how we feel about that stimulus, and how we, uniquely, experience that stimulus. The way people experience orgasm is diverse, about way more than just genitals or having a given set of them. Whatever you experience is what you experience, and others may also share similar experiences, while some other folks don't, and whether what we experience is similar or dissimilar to what others do doesn't make anyone's experiences any more or less real.


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LONDON (AFP) - Manuel Pellegrini challenged his Manchester City stars to set their sights on a quadruple after they swept into the League Cup final in emphatic fashion.
Pellegrini's side showed no mercy as two goals from Alvaro Negredo and a Sergio Aguero strike crushed West Ham 3-0 in the League Cup semi-final second leg at Upton Park on Tuesday.
The ruthless display in east London sealed a 9-0 aggregate triumph that was the largest semi-final margin of victory in the history of the competition.
City can now look forward to a Wembley showdown against Manchester United or Sunderland on March 2, which gives Pellegrini a chance to secure the first trophy since he arrived as Roberto Mancini's replacement in the close-season.
The League Cup remains very much fourth priority on Pellegrini's to-do list however, and the Chilean believes success in the Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup is also still a distinct possibility if City can maintain their current free-scoring form.
"I'm very proud of the team. We arrived in the final winning the five games with 19 goals scored, with just one goal conceded," Pellegrini said.
"Always a final at Wembley is a very important final and I'm very proud of the team that we are still in four competitions.
"Now we've finished with the League Cup until March. It's very important to continue in the FA Cup, so we must win against Watford.
"We'll continue with the same winning and ambitious mentality.
"We are thinking about winning every match." City are now unbeaten in their last 18 matches in all competitions, and with their forward line functioning as well as any in Europe, a clean sweep of the four trophies can't be ruled out.
Aguero is already back in top form after recovering from a calf injury suffered in December, while Negredo, Navas and even teenage winger Marcos Lopes, who impressed on a rare start against West Ham, add guile and grace to the City attack.
Pellegrini won't let his players get too carried away just yet though and he added: "We have a lot of work to do. In the FA Cup we are just in the fourth round.
"In the Champions League we have a tough game against Barcelona.
"The Premier League's very close and it will still be close till the end between four or five teams.
"At the moment we are happy the way we are doing things. We must continue in the future the same way." Pellegrini, who has never been to Wembley as a manager, is unconcerned who his side face in the final and he said: "Wembley's special for everyone.
"Both teams would be difficult. Maybe everybody thinks Manchester United would be our rival in the final, but Sunderland has options." Meanwhile, West Ham manager Sam Allardyce was left to lament further injuries as midfielders Joe Cole and Mohamed Diame went off with groin and knee problems respectively.
The Hammers' focus now turns to their fight for Premier League survival, something Allardyce believes hinges on the fitness of his players and new signings.
Ricardo Vaz Te, Guy Demel, Joey O'Brien, George McCartney and Winston Reid are all nearing returns.
"If you give me all them fit from as quickly as possible until the end of the season, I think we'll come out of this," Allardyce said.
"Forty points is the safe zone over more than 10 years now. It's got to be 22 points minimum for me in the last 16 (games)." Allardyce has been trying to strengthen his squad in the transfer market and was frustrated at missing out on striker Lacina Traore, who now appears set to join Everton on loan from Monaco.
Asked if he is likely to make any signings before next week's match at Chelsea, Allardyce said: "I wouldn't have a clue at the minute. Every time I get a new signing somebody else takes him."


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Microsoft plans to extend support for its Windows Defender ATP service to devices running older operating systems, including Windows 7.
The decision, announced this week, is a turn-about for the tech giant, which had limited the service to Windows 10 machines.
In a post to a company blog, a Microsoft director cited customers' heterogeneous set-ups to explain the change.
"We know that while in their transition, some [customers] may have a mix of Windows 10 and Windows 7 devices in their environments," wrote Rob Lefferts of the Windows group's security and enterprise team.
"We want to help our customers achieve the best security possible on their way to Windows 10 ahead of the end of support for Windows 7 in January 2020."
Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) is a service that detects ongoing attacks on corporate networks, then follows up to investigate the attack or breach, and provides response recommendations.
Software baked into Windows 10 detects attacks, while a central management console allows IT administrators to monitor the status of covered devices, and react if necessary.
Microsoft's offering competes with similar services from security-first vendors like Check Point, FireEye and Fortinet.
It debuted in March 2016 to an invite-only group of corporate customers, then went public in August of that year when Windows 10 version 1607, aka "Anniversary Update," launched.
By summer, Lefferts said, ATP's Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) will be added to Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 so PCs running the older OSes can be monitored by the service - giving enterprise IT the same visibility into those machines as it has had into Windows 10 systems. A public preview will be available sometime in the spring.
Microsoft doesn't sell ATP separately; it comes only as a component within the most expensive Windows 10 licenses, such as those provided by the subscription-based Windows 10 Enterprise E5 or Microsoft 365 E5.
The company touts ATP as the differentiator between those SKUs (stock-selling units) and the one-tier-lower E3 bundles.
That's what made Microsoft's extending a hearty handshake to Windows 7 and 8.1 so striking: Microsoft has used ATP to sell enterprises on Windows 10 - the company has argued again and again that the OS is much more secure than its predecessors - and in particular to prod those customers to pony up for the priciest licensing subscriptions.
Adding Windows 7 and 8.1 to Defender ATP butted against that strategy.
John Pescatore, the director of emerging security trends at the SANS Institute, said there were two likely reasons Microsoft went against its earlier grain.
The first, he said, was this year's biggest news in security - so far - the processor vulnerabilities dubbed "Meltdown" and "Spectre" that were revealed in January.
"Meltdown and Spectre impact all [operating systems], and some people running older OSes aren't patching them at all," Pescatore said, ticking off instances in healthcare and manufacturing where PCs cannot be updated because the hardware they control cannot abide one or more bug fixes. "And Windows 7 has a pretty big market share," Pescatore added.
Indeed. Together, Windows 7 and 8.1 accounted for 56 per cent of all copies of Windows in action last month, according to analytics vendor Net Applications. Meanwhile, Windows 10, while continuing to climb, mustered 39 per cent.
Under Pescatore's theory, Microsoft - which knew of the Meltdown/Spectre flaws in mid-2016 - pulled the ATP trigger on Windows 7 and 8.1 so that corporations would know if or when one or more of their PC majorities had been compromised.
"And you have to believe that Microsoft is protecting its brand," Pescatore said, moving to his second premise. "Windows share is gradually shrinking among desktop operating systems," Pescatore noted.
It's even smaller when considered as part of all OSes, including those like Android and iOS that power smartphones and tablets. "Yet, invariably breaches [originate with] a Windows computer."
In other words, Microsoft is trying to protect its operating system's reputation, on which so much else, from Office to Server to cloud-based services, ultimately depends, with the ATP-to-Windows-7-and-8.1 decision.
Ironically, Microsoft will put in place the Windows 7 integration - assuming it does so mid-summer - when the operating system has just 18 or so months of support remaining. That's a blink of an eye in enterprise time. (Windows 8.1 simply doesn't count; not only was it largely ignored by businesses, its January user share was a measly 7.6 per cent of all Windows PCs.)
The Redmond, Washington developer conceivably could have debuted Defender ATP with Windows 7 support at a point where the OS had 42 months of support.
That Microsoft did not do so reinforces the idea that it wanted to use the service to sell Windows 10, not protect the overall Windows ecosystem.
Pescatore questioned the concept that Defender ATP motivated corporate migrations to Windows 10. "I don't see it as a reason to upgrade [to Windows 10]," he argued. For one thing, it's hard to find large organisations that are all-in with Microsoft. And there's resistance on several levels to Microsoft selling security software.
Corporations often purposefully layer defences using multiple vendors, Pescatore noted - not wanting to put all eggs in a single basket - and so already have in place EDR solutions from firms such as Endgame or CrowdStrike.
There's another reason why Microsoft-made security software fuels some pushback. "You don't see Google, with Android, or Apple, with iOS, selling security products to protect their own stuff," Pescatore said. "There's always resistance to that when Microsoft does it. It's been trying to be a major player [in security] for, what, 20 years?"
Microsoft's Lefferts did not say whether the integration of Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 PCs with Defender ATP would come at a price, and if so, what that price would be.


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Thursday, January 12, 2012
Sometimes They Buy What You're Selling, Sometimes They Don't
Recently, I had a couple of op-eds published by the nice folks over at The Boston Herald. One concerned the commercialization of Christmas, while the other was a (somewhat) tongue-in-cheek list of New Year resolutions. I'm happy to have had them published (and even happier to have received payment.)
Yesterday, I decided to see if they were interested in something of a political nature. I wrote an analysis of what had thus far transpired during the Republican primaries. I sent it off to the editor who had bought my previous submissions.
Her response?
"Thanks, but I'll take a pass on this one."
Fair enough. I didn't expect her to buy every bit of writing I sent her way, and I figured selling this one to her might have been a bit more of a longshot than the others. The previous were benign; one was an opinion that few would have an argument with, and the other was a decent laugh. This was serious, political, and it treads upon ground that The Herald may not want trodden. They've already endorsed Mitt Romney, and my piece centered on not automatically buying into those opinions, from some analysts, that Romney has the nomination locked up. Expecting an editor to purchase a piece that somewhat goes against the paper's stated political preference is expecting a bit much. I gave it a shot, though, figuring that if it didn't sell, I could always turn it into a good read here.
And so I have, you lucky dogs! Enjoy my political punditry!
We've Barely Begun
I have a question for those of you who may like to consider yourselves politically astute: Do you know how many delegates are currently pledged to each of the Republican presidential contenders?
You might know the answer, but the odds are against it. Precious little has been said about it in most media outlets. And that's a shame, as it is the most important part of the entire primary election process.
While some pundits have already declared Mitt Romney the eventual nominee, it should be noted that committed delegates – those won via the processes in Iowa and New Hampshire – amount to approximately 1.7% of the total amount of delegates available. Even if unpledged RNC delegates are counted (that is, those Republican National Committee members who do not have to indicate a candidate preference, but a majority of whom are elected just like pledged delegates) the number of delegates for all of the contenders now comes to only 2.2% of the total.
To declare Romney the winner, at this point, is a bit like predicting the outcome of a baseball game after two outs in the top of the first inning. There's a long, long way to go. And much can happen during that time.
It takes 1,144 delegates to win the nomination. Here are the numbers of pledged delegates, thus far:
Mitt Romney – 14
Ron Paul – 10
Rick Santorum – 7
Newt Gingrich, Jon Huntsman, and Rick Perry – 2 each
If we include the number of unpledged RNC delegates, Romney rises to 25. Paul stays in second place, at 10. Santorum moves up a bit, to 8. The other three have a total of 9 between them.
In either scenario, the numbers thus far secured are miniscule. More important to note is that Romney has less than half the total of the small number thus far accounted for. And, since the nomination cannot be won without a majority, that means this thing is still way up in the air, no matter how much some may not want it to be.
Now, I'm not saying that Romney doesn't have a significantly good start. Perception is mighty important heading into South Carolina and Florida, and the simple fact is that many voters will cast a vote for that candidate they think can win, rather than basing a vote purely on how much they like the stands and opinions of any other. Having won the first two contests, Romney will be perceived by many as the only candidate who has a real chance. But the fact is, he isn't.
South Carolina will not be a slam dunk, and it is less important, overall, than it has been in years past. Due to the wrangling of certain states, in moving up their primary dates, South Carolina and Florida have had their delegate totals halved from previous years, a penalty imposed by the RNC for their actions. There are only 25 delegates at stake in SC, 11 of which go to the statewide winner and 14 proportioned from the state's congressional districts. It's quite possible that the attacks being made on Romney now, from most all of the other candidates (Paul being the lone curious exception) will come home to roost in South Carolina. If so, despite his frontrunner status, Mitt may find himself in a true battle. Some polls show his lead at a rather low 3%, fairly much a statistical tie. If the former Massachusetts governor absorbs a few more Bain body blows over the next week, who knows?
As Damon Runyon once said, "The race may not always be to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet." So, if you make your living via political predictions, it makes sense to tout Romney, the frontrunner, as the eventual victor. However, he hasn't even won 50% of the delegates thus far available to have been won. We'd all do well to keep that in mind the next time we hear any predictions.
(Jim Sullivan is a former state chair of the Massachusetts Libertarian Party.
To his credit, he now is not, and may be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com)
Soon, with more better stuff.
34 comments:
- Jackie said...
I keep remembering the predicitons for the Denver/Pittsburg game.
It's not over until it's over.
Jackie - 9:37 AM, January 12, 2012
- skywind said...
Sometimes, we don't even know why we want to buy something.
- 9:50 AM, January 12, 2012
- Craig said...
Well, of course. Lot of water left to go under the dam before the election (or is that over the bridge? I can never keep 'em straight. . .)
There was a time when I was WAY more politically engaged than what I am these days. These primaries seem about as ill-suited as they possibly can be to do what they're supposed to do - put forth a serious candidate for the office of President. It's all photo-ops and sound-bites, and what little substance there is, gets drowned out in the talking-head commentary.
But hey, we know a thing or two about Romneys in this state, Mitt's daddy having been our guv, once upon a time. . . - 10:30 AM, January 12, 2012
- Tabor said...
The editor should have published the article. He/She already made their call, but the articles should not all be one sided if it is indeed a real newspaper. Freedom of the Press is complicated. I did not know how small the numbers were...but I am not amazed.
- 10:39 AM, January 12, 2012
- (not necessarily your) Uncle Skip said...
Nobody's selling anything I want... at least not in a single package.
That said, I see absolutely nothing about what you wrote that would in any way detract from the newspaper's endorsement.
While I'm at it... it appears that there's some 6% of folks polled in SC who aren't taking this primary election all that seriously. - 11:16 AM, January 12, 2012
- Chris said...
I have a hard time taking a guy seriously when it sounds like he was named by the president of Rawlings.
- 11:22 AM, January 12, 2012
- stephen Hayes said...
I'm a bit of a political junkie although I don't deal with politics too much in my blog. But I greatly enjoyed your article. Quite an interesting perspective.
- 11:27 AM, January 12, 2012
- Suldog said...
Tabor - I appreciate your very nice words, but I don't blame her in any way for not buying my stuff. It's always a subjective call, so I'm pleased as punch when I make a sale and not personally offended when it doesn't sell.
When I say that the paper endorsed Romney, perhaps I wasn't putting it in strong enough terms. They have not only endorsed him, but have made some bit of effort to proselytize, too. Any opinion that might cast doubt concerning their boy's eventual victory would not start in most instances, so that's the way it is and I have no problem with that (at least insofar as my writing sales are concerned.) - 11:40 AM, January 12, 2012
- Michelle H. said...
When someone talks politics, my eyes glaze over. So I struggled a bit. My opinion of the thing is that I hope Rick Santorum doesn't get in.
Otherwise, you can't go against the paper, even in an op-ed piece. If they had accepted your article, it would have made it look like they are unbiased. Media outlets aren't allowed to walk the political line and take an objective view. - 12:09 PM, January 12, 2012
- IT (aka Ivan Toblog) said...
It used to be if you couldn't get your stuff (not exactly YOUR stuff, but anybody's stuff) published, you'd just go start your own newspaper.
Now anyone can publish if they have access to the innerwebs. Some are pretty good and others are named Blogs of Note (I couldn't resist) - 1:48 PM, January 12, 2012
- notactuallygod said...
Most of them; Romney, Paul, Gingrich and Perry have too many glaring flaws/vulnerabilities to win in a general election. I didn't think Obama would get a second term until I saw the pack of stiffs looking to unseat him.
- 1:48 PM, January 12, 2012
- Daryl said...
This was like a sports post, I think I'll leave the clever quippery to the others .. me, I just want to ask America: when will you find your short term (no pun intended)memory and remember how we got into this mess?
- 3:11 PM, January 12, 2012
- Buck said...
The way we choose presidential candidates in this country is just frickin' absurd. Or at least it is THIS year, where the GOP is concerned.
Jim Sullivan is a former state chair of the Massachusetts Libertarian Party.
To his credit, he now is not...
Heh. Double-Heh. - 3:55 PM, January 12, 2012
- messymimi said...
Excellently put.
- 8:09 PM, January 12, 2012
- lime said...
it's a shame they passed since you're really just pointing out mathematical fact and suggesting that voters engage their brains.
now please excuse me a brief rant regarding more brainless sheep behavior in media coverage and voting...
1. i can't stand listening to the media about how the GOP is only concerned with finding a candidate capable of beating obama. call me a crazy idealist but shouldn't any party be fielding a candidate who is a competent leader of this nation? the whole question is framed entirely incorrectly if the question is who can merely win. it highlights what i find broken beyond repair about our system...2 parties who only care about control, not about the welfare of the nation and her people.
2. it's absurd that primaries are on all different days. it feeds that whole media circus about who is ahead and people voting for the perceived winner. just like the general election have all the primaries on the same day when it comes to a presidential election.
3. no coverage of polls returns until the last poll in hawaii closes. (and yes, i know THAT has a snowball's chance in hell of ever being considered)
ok, maybe it wasn't brief but there ya have it. - 8:43 PM, January 12, 2012
I echo what Lime said. You both make good points. I don't have much taste for politics and I don't have a head for figures. It's interesting to see the numbers in print, rather than listening to the talking heads.
Keep sending stuff out there. I think eventually you will get picked up as a regular columnist somewhere. - 10:35 PM, January 12, 2012
- Just Stuff From a Boomer said...
I look at these primaries like a horse race and you just know that lead horse rarely keeps the pace the entire race. However it falls, I just hope there is a better VP candidate than the last one.
- 10:55 PM, January 12, 2012
- Char said...
Ah, sweet freedom of the press. Its their loss.
- 1:06 AM, January 13, 2012
- Sueann said...
Actually I really don't care who is ahead...because our choices are lame! Seriously!
Just saying
SUeAnn - 5:57 AM, January 13, 2012
- The Broad said...
I learned my lesson at the last election's primaries -- I never thought Obama had a chance. "It's not over till the fat lady sings" as a wise man in Boston once said...
- 9:17 AM, January 13, 2012
- (not necessarily your) Uncle Skip said...
It's too bad the wolf has left our county. Now politics will grab the headlines here again... except on my blog. I don't have a clue about what to post.
I think I'll call this comment Herman (IYKWIM) - 10:55 AM, January 13, 2012
- Cricket said...
Heh, heh.
Well, you know where I stand on things political. Myself, since Citizens United and all, I think politicians, and maybe even parties and primaries, should start accepting overt corporate sponsorship. I mean, everything is now the TDBanknorthFleetCenter or whateverthehell? Let's see who's paying the bills right up front.
For this Republican primary, I suggest Massengill, 'cos you won't find a bigger bunch of douchebags outside of the feminine hygiene aisle.
"Good evening and welcome to the Massengill Republican primary coverage..."
Has a ring to it. - 12:33 PM, January 13, 2012
- Cricket said...
p.s. - I will make a qualified exception to the overall d-baggery for Ron Paul, Jon Huntsman, and Buddy Roemer. Of course, none of them are going to win, I think, due to their failure to out-douche the others.
And Newt Gingrich, the political equivalent of that moldy slice of meatloaf you left in the back of the fridge and forgot about, counts triple anyway. Who the hell wants to reheat that? Nevermind think about actually eating it? - 12:48 PM, January 13, 2012
- IT (aka Ivan Toblog) said...
I'm with Cricket... on both comments
- 12:55 PM, January 13, 2012
- Reena said...
I'm a true cynic when it comes to the media ... but as they say "it's not over until the fat lady sings ..."
- 5:09 PM, January 13, 2012
- Shrinky said...
Wish I understood American politics..(shrug). I barely grasp our Island elections, and we're a self-governing pop of c. 70,000!
But hey, congrats on the paid work - and not before time, either! - 5:21 PM, January 13, 2012
- Ami said...
Interesting article, really. I learned from it.
But I truly believe that the elections are rigged and full of fraud and things that I can only describe adequately through the use of profanity.
If voting actually changed anything, it would not be legal. - 11:43 PM, January 13, 2012
- silly rabbit said...
Politics make me want to hide. But I have to be informed to make a wise choice, so I follow. Right now we are still in the totally stupid phase.
- 12:50 AM, January 14, 2012
- i beati said...
I personally think they are trying to close the gap to get someone to beat the .... in the white house- that is the reason for this pushing forward. This is making Republicans look terribly unsure and we had better be sure- that is a real problem in the WH..
- 10:18 AM, January 14, 2012
- Grumpy Old Ken said...
Interestins stuff but ALL the candidates seem very flawed. Frightening!
- 8:27 AM, January 15, 2012
- (not necessarily your) Uncle Skip said...
I think the last candidate without any flaws came around about 2000 years ago. Any further discussion would involve mixing politics and religion with the mathematics of the post. That's way too volatile.
- 12:28 PM, January 15, 2012
They should have printed it, but I'm not surprised they didn't, considering they obviously have their own agenda to push. It's very sad that the focus is on who can beat Obama rather than on what the candidates stand for.
Do they have an (unpaid) area, such as Dear Editor, where you could have this published? - 11:28 AM, January 16, 2012
- Clare Dunn said...
I can't comment on this post...I have a difficult enough time looking intelligent, and I don't want to skew my rep with your followers.
So, a different subject! "Dunes II" http://xoxoxocd.blogspot.com/2011/12/giveaway-winner.html
has been shipped, and should arrive within the next few days. I'm tracking it, and it left the Boston facility on Jan 14, so there!
Enjoy! - 12:58 PM, January 16, 2012
- Suldog said...
I could send it as a letter to the editor, but my pride won't let me, seeing as how I've now been paid for two pieces. I might try another outlet, though (maybe The Boston Globe.) - 3:31 PM, January 16, 2012


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Newswise — Research released today by the Center for Injury Research and Prevention at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) found that TeenDrivingPlan (TDP), a web-based intervention designed to help parents more effectively supervise driving practice, improved the driving performance of pre-licensed teenagers. The research, published in JAMA Pediatrics, involved five years of formative research followed by a randomized, controlled trial of young drivers and their parent supervisors.
Youth with learner's permits who were assigned to use TDP over a 24-week period were 65 percent less likely to fail a rigorous on-road driving assessment administered prior to licensure compared to those who followed a usual practice "control" condition. Overall, six percent of the pre-licensed teenagers in the TDP group had their on-road driving assessment terminated due to unsafe driving performance as compared to 15 percent of those in the control group. Families who used TDP also reported more driving practice in various environments, at night, and in bad weather.
A corresponding CHOP research article, published this month in the Journal of Adolescent Health, examined how TDP exerted its effect on driver performance and found that both greater quantity and variety of practice were associated with better driving performance, but only the latter was impacted by TDP. Additionally, families in the TDP group reported greater parent engagement and support. "We saw an opportunity to improve young drivers' safety by focusing our research and development efforts on the learner phase to increase the amount and quality of driving experience before they become licensed," says Jessica H. Mirman, PhD, lead author of the study and a developmental psychologist at the Center for Injury Research and Prevention (CIRP) at CHOP. This research was funded by State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company (State Farm®).
"Supervised practice during the permit phase is a common provision of Graduated Driver Licensing programs in most states, yet there is a lack of evidence-based interventions available to support families," says Dr. Mirman. "Evidence-based interventions like TeenDrivingPlan can address this problem by helping busy parents make the most of supervised practice time."
TDP is an interactive web-based program for parent practice driving supervisors. It supports three main activities for families: (1) Learning, (2) Planning, (3) Practice, and (4) Logging and Rating. The learning component of TDP features 53 brief videos to guide parents in creating a positive learning environment in the car and to help them structure practice activities across a variety of driving environments (e.g., highways, commercial districts). The planning component of TDP features an interactive practice planner that helps families select concrete goals for each practice session. The logging and rating tool helps families keep track of practice hours and collect information on goal performance, providing them with an easy way to monitor both practice time and skill development. Components of TDP will be available later this year on teendriversource.org.
TDP is based on previous CHOP research that characterized strengths and weaknesses of parents' supervision of practice driving, parents' and teens' perceptions of factors that can increase parents' engagement over the length of the permit period, and formative research on usability and acceptability. The goal of TDP is to increase the quantity and variety of parent-supervised practice to develop teenagers' driving skills before licensure.
A third CHOP analysis, published in Injury Prevention, used state-of-the-art web analytics to examine TDP use in detail and its association with practice variety. Future CHOP studies will further explore ways to enhance TDP's positive effects on young driver performance and supervised practice to develop teenagers' driving skills before licensure.
To learn more about CHOP's TeenDrivingPlan research, visit teendriversource.org.SOURCE The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
About The Center for Injury Research and Prevention at The Children's Hospital of PhiladelphiaThe Center for Injury Research and Prevention at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia was established in 1996 to advance the safety and health of children, adolescents, and young adults through comprehensive research that encompasses before-the-injury prevention to after-the-injury healing. The Center's multidisciplinary research team, with expertise in the Behavioral Sciences; Medicine; Engineering; Epidemiology and Biostatistics; Human Factors; Public Health; and Communications, translates rigorous scientific research into practical tools and guidelines for families, professionals, and policymakers. For more information on the Center and its research initiatives, visit http://injury.research.chop.edu.
SOURCE The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
RELATED LINKShttp://injury.research.chop.edu http://www.teendriversource.org
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SLIDESHOW: 10 Lethal Young Ladies You Should Never, Ever Mess With
In this week's Hanna, 16-year-old knife enthusiast Saoirse Ronan joins the illustrious ranks of the lethal young women who've taken up arms (or fangs, or machine gun-arms) in the movies in the name of raining down righteous fury upon their enemies. Whether raised as assassins or transformed by tragic circumstance, these ten adolescent girls and teens don't take crap from anyone -- and they have the combined body count to prove it. If you run into any of these fierce misses in a darkened alley, let's hope they're on your side.
Click here to meet the deadliest young ladies in the movies.


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The first round of international Give One, Get One orders have been shipped out — every order placed before December 16 should have arrived by now, in time for Christmas. Some were sent from Miami, and the European orders went out from Brussels with EU adapters and a special G1G1 Europe thank-you note.
Orders between now and December 31 should ship out by mid-January. We are able to ship to all of the 45 countries mentioned in the original announcement, and are investigating and adding more countries as there is specific interest. If you want to send laptops to a country not currently on our list, leave a comment here, and I will see what we can do.
Barring an extension, International G1G1 will end on December 31st. Be sure to place your orders now if you are interested.
It currently still appears that one is preordering on Amazon, and that the XO is "available January 15" — that means that orders made now will be shipped by Jan 15 or else refunded. This is the way information is sent to us for fulfillment – a compromise we have made to cover countries everywhere, since AMZN was only able to handle shipping within the US. Donors in a few specific countries (Australia, Hong Kong, France) can choose to take part in G1G1 directly through a local site, as a tax-deductable donation.
Adam Holt was in Brussels for the first round of European shipping; I'll see if I can get some candid photos from him :-)Â Â If you are requesting shipping to a country in sub-Saharan Africa, chances are we can make that happen, even though most of these countries are not on that country list.


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"About 120 protesters outside Mullingar station Ming Flanagan, Maura Harrington, etc. Supporting McCabe. M" - Ex-Garda Commissioner Callinan
"You can judge a man by his friends" Brian Purcell - SG of Dept of Justice
"Some shower Brian" Callinan
October 21, 2009 A controversy in Ireland nine years in the making is poised to reach its climax this week. The planning commission, An Bord Pleanála, delivers its decision to approve or deny Shell permission to lay a final stretch of pipeline across the five miles of boggy terrain that separate the Atlantic pipeline and the processing plant.
With the fifty-mile ocean pipeline laid and the processing plant 80 percent finished, this decision, which almost everyone expects to be in Shell's favor, will mark the completion of the Corrib Gas Pipeline project.
Although the Corrib gas field, discovered in 1996 by Enterprise Energy Ireland Ltd, was not acquired by Shell Exploration & Production Ireland Limited until 2002, opposition began in December of 2000, when local resident and retired schoolteacher, Micheál Ó Seighin, made a submission to Mayo County Council opposing development on environmental grounds.
When Mayo County Council went ahead and granted planning permission for the processing plant in 2001, Rossport residents immediately appealed the decision to An Bord Pleanála.
After holding public hearings, An Bord Pleanála overturned Mayo County Council's decision, citing the instability of peat on the site.
Objections to the plant's future toxic emissions were inadmissible at this time. They would have to wait until after the processing plant was built and when the Environmental Protection Agency was asked to grant a license.)
Meanwhile, following some behind-the-scenes machinations, Shell was encouraged to resubmit its application, and, in a telling indication of things to come, was duly granted permission second time around.
And so began the campaign of Rossport citizens opposed to the pipeline that continues to this day, despite almost no support from elected officials and precious little coverage in Ireland's media. In the process, gaeltacht residents have educated themselves on all aspects of pipeline technology, from "PIGs" to "bar pressures" to "catchment areas" and have staged peaceful protests. Their arrests and court cases will not be counted among the finer moments in Irish jurisprudence.
"Have you got a family car, have you got a home? I can take all that off you and I can fine you hundreds and hundreds of thousands and I'll find a way that you will pay for it. And I'll jail every farmer in Mayo if I have to."
Though Mr. Justice Joseph Finnegan was addressing Micheál Ó Seighin, his words were directed toward all five Rossport men appearing before him in June, 2005, charged with flouting a Shell injunction against peacefully protesting the presence of Shell employees on their land, a crime (for the protesters, not the trespassers) since 2001, when Minister Frank Fahey introduced Statutory Instrument 517, giving the minister for marine and natural resources the power to grant compulsory acquisition orders for land along the pipeline route.
When the "Rossport 5" refused to knuckle under, they were jailed for contempt for 94 days until September 30, when Shell, after insisting all summer its hands were tied and that it couldn't lift the injunction - lifted the injunction.
That incident occurred on the Circuit Court level, as opposed to the local District Court level where Judge Mary Devins sits. Devins, who has presided over the preponderance of cases involving Shell protesters, remains steadfast in her convictions despite being frequently overruled, including an astonishing eight times in eight days earlier this year.
The police, on the other hand, are subject to no such unflattering second-guessing. Complaints of police misconduct to the gardai and to the Ombudsman go unanswered.
One of those unanswered complaints was filed by fisherman Pat O'Donnell, whose pleas to elected officials to safeguard his constitutional right to fish in the waters of Broadhaven Bay also fell on deaf ears.
Instead, he has had two boats confiscated by the government, all his nets and traps ($100,000 worth of gear) "removed to a safe place" by Shell, and a third boat sunk underneath him this past June, he says by four masked men.
Those who say O'Donnell did it himself can't explain why he would sink his own ship knowing he would never collect a penny on the insurance.
Though one might imagine that even the most cursory scrutiny would uncover an injustice or two somewhere in there, neither press nor politician has taken up his cause.
On the contrary, when divers located O'Donnell's boat off Erris Head at the end of August, presumably with its evidence of any criminal activity intact, the gardai termed it "unlikely" the vessel would be raised.
Even so, outsiders could be forgiven for dismissing those opposed to the pipeline as a bunch of shrill Chicken Littles with shadowy ties to Sinn Féin running around all hopped up over nothing. Because that's precisely the image instilled by the national media, with the sole exception of the Irish Times. There's been virtually no examination of the legitimacy, or lack thereof, of residents' objections to the pipeline.
During the May/June An Bord Pleanála hearings on Shell's proposed overland pipeline, only the Times carried retired army bomb disposal expert Patrick Boyle's warning that an onshore gas pipeline rupture would have "horrific" consequences for civilians in and around Rossport.
And no one reported on ABP's pipeline consultant Nigel Wright's testimony that Shell has dismissed substantial risk factors including internal corrosion, methane hydrate, construction faults, and pipe instability in peat bog, not to mention his criticism of Shell's "ultra high pressure" of 144 bar gas, almost twice the rate of normal gas transmission in Ireland. (A car tire is 2 bar.)
Then there's Shell's proposed 30-second safety plan in the event of pipeline rupture, which requires local people of all ages to walk at a pace of 2.5 meters per second over uneven peat bog to the "shelter" that Shell says is waiting at the end of their 30-second jog and that will save them from being blown to bits.
This escape plan may prove moot, however, as some people speculate that Shell's August 18 application for a Foreshore License may indicate it plans to reroute the pipe up Sruwaddacon Bay, a scenario with its own set of problems.
When I was in Rossport this summer, longtime resident Mary Moran said to me: "Every night I pray that someone, somewhere, will hear us and pay attention to what we're saying."
It appears her prayers will go unanswered.
Marilyn Horan lives in New York City and is a human rights activist.


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The HTML purification manifesto
I recently sent Greg Weber an email about his xss-sanitize package, cautioning about his reuse of the pandoc sanitization algorithm for his own package. He responded (with good justification) that a mere caution was not very constructive! So here is my response, the "HTML purification manifesto," which HTML Purifier follows and which I think is a prerequisite for any industrial grade HTML sanitization library. I will admit it's a tough manifesto to follow, and I'll talk about when you can get away with not following it to the line.
The manifesto.
Use semantic data structures.
Whitelist and validate everything.
Output only what all browsers understand.
Use semantic data structures. Many filters attempt to never build up a DOM or tokenized representation of their HTML during the processing stage for performance reasons. It turns out this makes securing your filter notoriously difficult. Consider the XSS cheatsheet: see how many of the vulnerabilities involve non-well-formed HTML. If you require HTML to be converted into a DOM, and then serialize it out again, you have a pretty good guarantee that the result will be well-formed, and you eliminate all of those vulnerabilities.
This must be applied to all sublanguages in HTML, and not just HTML itself. You also have to be careful that your serializer produces standards compliant output. For example, a vulnerability in HTML Purifier itself was caused by a lax adherence to standards. As it states:
HTML Purifier's fix also percent-encodes any other reserved character in each segment of a URI. This was actually a previously identified section of relaxed standards compliance, and strictly enforcing the rules eliminated the vulnerability.
Semantic data structures are also useful for implementing extra features—for example extracting content from the document or converting all URIs into absolute form—and makes validation and manipulation tremendously easier. It will also be critical for the next step.
Whitelist and validate everything. Whitelisting is a well accepted practice, and I will not harp on it here. However, there are subtleties in its application. In order to understand the first part of the manifesto, you need to understand what everything means. At first glance, the obvious things that you might have to whitelist are elements and attributes. But if you decide to allow the href attribute, you need to make sure you whitelist URI schemes too—three things to whitelist. And heaven forbid you decide to allow style attributes!
It's far better to take a different approach to whitelisting: every time you encounter an attribute, figure out what its sensible values are, and validate it to a whitelist. Think you don't need to validate that height? Consider the imagecrash attack, which can bluescreen an unwitting Windows user simply by setting the width and height of an image to 999999. Complicated attribute? It may have further structure, so expand it into the appropriate semantic data structure! (The most obvious candidates are URIs and CSS strings.) You don't necessarily have to create these structures in memory (indeed, an optimized implementation would try to avoid it), but it certainly makes coding the algorithms a lot easier. Also, it is much easier to manipulate the resulting semantic structure than it is to manipulate a bunch of strings.
This is a rather large problem to tackle, because there are so many elements and attributes in HTML and so many sublanguages embedded within those. However, you can dramatically simplify matters by creating a domain specific language to help you declaratively specify what the semantics are: though I didn't know it at the time, this was the approach that HTML Purifier took with its HTMLModule system.
Output only what all browsers understand. I used to believe that standards compliance was enough to make sure all browsers understood your syntax (the primary target of most exploits.) Sometimes, however, browsers just don't parse by the standards at all. Usually, the wild and woolly fields of ambiguous behavior lie outside the dictates of standards, but sometimes the standard says X should happen and Internet Explorer goes and does Y. It is tempting to throw your hands up in the air and just deal with the vulnerabilities as they come in.
But because this is an incompatibility with the standards, there are many web developers have discovered that what should work doesn't! For CSS, even the most obscure parsing bug in Internet Explorer has been tripped over by some web developer and been documented in a wiki or encoded into a CSS hack. This knowledge, while seemingly not related to the questions of security, is critical for someone writing an HTML filter! It tells you, in particular, what the subset of standards-compliant HTML that is understood by all browsers is.
A more practical note. Whenever I see a new HTML filter pop up on the web, I apply these three litmus tests to the source code (I don't even bother trying the demo):
- Does it use an HTML parser or attempt to do a bunch of string transformations?
- How much does it whitelist? Just elements and attributes? What contents of attributes does it treat?
- Does the filter appear to have accreted those battle scars that come from dealing with the real world?
I apply the second and third criterion less strongly depending on what the filter claims to support: for example, a filter with no support for CSS needs not worry about its attendant difficulties. In the extreme case, if you're writing a filter for just <b> and <i>, you can get away with not following any of these recommendations and be fine. But I suspect users always want more features, and you will inevitably start adding new elements and attributes. So I also judge whether or not the source seems to have thought about extending itself in these directions.
A more linguistic note. I use the word "purification" rather than "sanitization", because sanitization implies that the pathogens have merely been rendered inert, whereas purification implies that they have actually been removed altogether. I think that the latter philosophy is a much safer stance!
Conclusion. Back in the day, I managed to write highly inflammatory comments about other HTML filters in an overzealous attempt to promote my own. I avoid doing direct comparisons these days; instead, I hope this manifesto is helpful to people interested in writing or improving their own filters.


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The old choice for ★ was a arbitrary: the precedence of the ASCII asterisk * was fixed at a wrong level in Coq, so we had to pick another symbol. The ★ was a random choice from a unicode chart. The new symbol ∗ (as proposed by David Swasey) corresponds better to conventional practise and matches the symbol we use on paper.


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U.S. home prices are slowing down, with easing annual growth in 20 major cities bringing the market closer to normality, according to data released Tuesday.
For a fourth consecutive monthly gain, U.S. home prices rose 1% in June, pushing annual price growth to 8.1%, the leanest year-over-year result since January 2013, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller's 20-city composite index of 20 major cities released Tuesday.
For the first time since early 2008, each of the 20 cities saw annual price growth slow down. Slower home-price growth, along with indicators such as a more positive outlook among home builders, are a good sign, said David Blitzer, index committee chairman at S&P Dow Jones Indices.
"Taken together, these point to a more normal housing sector," he said.
Among 20 tracked cities, all saw higher home prices in June, led by a monthly increase of 1.6% New York, the city's strongest showing since June 2013.
After seasonal adjustments, home prices among the 20 cities declined 0.2% in June, compared with a drop of 0.3% in May.
Prices have been cooling thanks, in part, to more sellers placing their homes on the market. Slower home prices can support more purchases by encouraging buyers to make an offer. Home prices that run too hot for too long would cut out an increasingly large share of the pool of prospective buyers. Buyers also have to contend with rising mortgage rates, which spiked last year, though there's been some easing in recent months.
"The evidence suggests that house prices are leveling off following the sharp increases of 2013, with the improved supply we have seen in recent existing home sale figures putting a cap on price pressures, and demand still below last year's peaks," Andrew Grantham, an economist at CIBC World Markets, wrote in a research note.
While buyers don't love quickly rising home prices, fast appreciation isn't all bad. Millions of troubled properties have regained equity over the past year, though this effect may wane somewhat as price growth slows.
"A more gradual pace of home price appreciation should continue to lift more homeowners out of negative equity, albeit at a slightly slower pace," Gennadiy Goldberg, U.S. strategist at TD Securities, wrote in a research note.
Including June's monthly gain, home prices were about 17% below a 2006 peak.
Separately, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which tracks deals involving mortgages backed by Fannie Mae (FNMA) and Freddie Mac (FMCC), reported that its seasonally adjusted gauge of home prices rose 0.4% in June, the seventh consecutive gain. Compared to June 2013, prices were up 5.1%, the FHFA added.


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Diminished bone density is common among menopausal women and raises their risk of osteoporosis, bone fractures and subsequent complications. Research has traditionally focused on therapies that seek to maintain the level of estrogen in the body. This hormone seems to sustain bone health, but it drops to an extremely low level during and after menopause.
However, research conducted by a team at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, GA suggests that another hormone, follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) may also be involved in decreasing bone mineral density during menopause. Dr. Joseph Cannon, Kellett Chair in Allied Health Sciences, presented his team's research at the American Physiological Society's Experimental Biology 2010 conference in Anaheim, April 24-28, 2010.
Increasing FSH Correlates to Decreasing Bone Density
The level of FSH gradually increases in the five years leading up to menopause, when it reaches its peak and estradiol bottoms out. Research has indicated that bone density begins to decrease over the same period of time. Also, data from animal studies indicated a link between FSH and bone density. This led Cannon and his colleagues to probe whether the increase of FSH has an effect on bone density in humans.
Bone mineral density is a balancing act between bone loss and bone growth involving two types of cells in the body: osteoclasts that break down bone, and osteoblasts that regenerate it. During menopausal bone loss, the osteoclasts' destructive activity outweighs the osteoblasts' rebuilding activity, resulting in an overall weakening of the bone.
Cytokines, which are secreted by white blood cells such as monocytes, are thought to play a role in this imbalance. One cytokine in particular, interleukin-1 beta (IL-1β), is known to activate osteoclasts. "Our hypothesis was that [FSH] was decreasing bone mineral density by influencing the production or action of cytokines," said Dr. Cannon.
Data in Cells Confirms Hormone's Effect in Women
To test their hypothesis, the researchers conducted a study of 36 women from 20 to 50 years old. By measuring each woman's level of FSH and then using a low-energy x-ray to analyze her bone density, the researchers saw that higher levels of FSH among the women were indeed associated with lower bone density.
These results prompted Cannon and his team to determine the effects of FSH on a cellular level. They collected blood samples from the study participants and isolated the monocytes to investigate the effect of FSH on cells outside of the body.
They discovered that the monocytes that make IL-1β have receptors for FSH. Receptors act like a lock for a key: when the key (FSH) enters the lock (receptor), the cell performs the activity coded by that key. In this case, the researchers determined that FSH stimulates the production of IL-1β if the monocytes have a sufficient number of FSH receptors.
Through further analysis, the researchers were able to confirm that blood FSH levels corresponded to blood levels of IL-1β. This suggests that both inside and outside the body, FSH stimulation of monocytes results in the production of IL-1β.
The team also compared the amount of IL-1β in the participants' blood to their bone density and saw that the higher the level of IL-1β, the lower the bone density, when other factors that control IL-1β activity were taken into account.
"Our current data suggest that if there was a way to modulate FSH receptors on cells, or some other way to modulate the ability of FSH to influence cells, the result might be a new way of treating or preventing osteoporosis," said Dr. Cannon. "These data support the possibility that controlling the actions of FSH may be a therapeutic way of dealing with osteoporosis that will work beyond the scope of treatments that have been used in the past."
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Publication Type: Proceedings Publication Acceptance Date: 8/21/2012 Publication Date: 8/21/2012 Citation: Hardin IV, R. G. ad Funk, P.A. 2012. Energy monitoring in gins - 2011. Proceedings of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers International (ASABE). 2012 Annual International Meeting. Dallas, TX July 29 - August 1, 2012. Paper Number 12-1336884. Interpretive Summary: According to a recent ginning cost survey, the average energy cost per bale was $5.18. This value represents the second largest source of variable costs for cotton gins, accounting for a quarter of variable costs. Energy use has not changed significantly in 50 years; consequently, a significant opportunity exists to improve gin profitability by reducing energy use. Studies of gin energy use have been conducted previously; however, this research only used data from utility bills or a single measurement during the ginning season. More comprehensive research is needed to understand causes of variation in electricity use at gins and identify specific opportunities in gins for energy conservation. Electricity and fuel use were monitored at two gins during the 2011 season. Motor loads were recorded for the large motors in gins: gin stands, fans, cleaning machinery, module feeders, and bale presses. Total power consumed by the gins was also monitored. Fuel consumption was estimated by measuring temperatures and air flow rates. The gins used 31.4 and 25.8 kWh.bale, less than the average electricity use, 41 kWh/bale, reported in a recent survey. The gins required 0.56 and 0.74 gal LPG/bale for drying and moisture restoration. Processing rate was the primary factor affecting electricity use per bale and also significantly affected fuel use. Seed cotton moisture and ambient temperature also affect fuel use. Different varieties of cotton ginned at significantly different rates; consequently, the energy used per bale was also different. Electricity used by different gin stand components indicated that further research needs to be conducted to improve gin stand controls to maximize processing rate while maintaining fiber quality. Less fuel per bale was used when ginning round modules than conventional modules, likely because the seed cotton was better protected from moisture. The bales on the ends of conventional modules required more fuel than the bales from the center, as wet areas in conventional modules are often found on the ends. Managers should operate gins at full capacity as frequently as possible and avoid idling equipment for long periods. To maximize processing rate and minimize fuel use, seed cotton must be properly stored so that cotton enters the gin at a suitable moisture content. Technical Abstract: Energy costs are the second largest source of variable costs for cotton gins. Previous studies of gin energy use have only considered a single, instantaneous reading of energy use or examined monthly utility bills. More detailed information is needed to identify management strategies and system designs that can reduce energy use. Electricity use was measured and fuel use was estimated from air flow and temperature measurements at two gins during the 2011 ginning season. Electricity use averaged 31.4 and 25.8 kWh bale-1, with cultivar having a significant effect on processing rate and electricity use. The first stage dryer LPG use was 1.25 L bale-1 (0.33 gal bale-1 and 1.45 L bale-1 (0.38 gal bale-1). Only one gin operated the burner for the second stage drying system, requiring 0.32 L bale-1 (0.08 gal bale-1) LPG. Moisture restoration system LPG use was 0.89 L bale-1 (0.23 gal bale-1) and 0.38 L bale-1 (0.10 gal bale-1), although the lower value represented data collected mostly during the wetter portion of the ginning season. Round modules required less fuel per bale than conventional modules, as more fuel was used to dry the ends of conventional modules. Higher processing rates reduced electricity and fuel use per bale at both gins. For maximum energy efficiency, cotton ginners should operate at full capacity as much as possible and avoid idling equipment during significant downtime. Proper seed cotton storage, particularly with conventional modules, is also necessary to reduce fuel use. |


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One suspects Ashley Judd could have had a better career. Though the pickings were no doubt slim for an up-and-coming screen star, she nevertheless accepted too many poor options that allowed her talent to be exploited and, worse, ossified to the point where her fundamental ability came into question. At the time of her woman-in-jeopardy thriller High Crimes, she thought she was Catwoman-in-waiting (as she liked to remind us in all her press), but we all know how that worked out. Perhaps the fact that High Crimes finds the taut-faced Judd on autopilot contributed to her reversal of fortune. The two things working for High Crimes are director Carl Franklin--best known for the mystery-thrillers Devil in a Blue Dress and One False Move--and Morgan Freeman. Freeman, unlike his pal Judd, seems incapable of phoning in a bad performance, no matter how lazy the script.
Judd plays Claire Kubik, a high-powered lawyer who suddenly finds her seemingly perfect husband Tom (Jim Caviezel) accused of murder by the U.S. Army. Despite the arcane procedures of military court, who better to defend him than his tenacious wife? But the more she finds out (!), the more she wonders what she's gotten herself into (!), which seems to be a military conspiracy (!!), perhaps masterminded by the general played by all-purpose slimeball Bruce Davison (!). Oh, and Claire's ne'er-do-well sister (Amanda Peet) is around (apparently solely to add slutty sex appeal). Baby-faced Adam Scott provides more chuckles as her prey, the defender assigned to Tom...or is Tom's real name...Ron (!!!)?
Despite my aversion to derivative, lazy, and improbable thrillers, I'd be lying if I said High Crimes had no pulp entertainment value. Franklin keeps things juiced with his dynamic camera, and even though his character (and much of the script) feels like warmed-over Anatomy of a Murder, Freeman brings a well-worn grace to the role of Charles Grimes, an alcoholic lawyer in private practice. Kudos also to the always affecting Caviezel (he always looks as if he's been hit on the head with a brick, but it works). However, someone should tell this famously and deeply religious actor--who refused to film his love scene unless both he and Judd were fully dressed--not to choose sleazy scripts like this one. Then again, someone should tell Franklin and Freeman the same thing.
High Crimes looks splendid in its Blu-ray debut, with a film-like but unobtrusive grain structure and exceptional detail. There's a touch of dust and dirt to the print source, and an occasional flash of noise or wavering contrast, but on the whole this well-tuned transfer delivers pleasing color and sharpness. Certainly this film will never sound better than it does in its surprisingly full DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 mix; while this is mostly a talky thriller, the surround balance is nicely done, and when the action does kick in, it packs a wallop.
Ported over from DVD are a nice collection of bonus features, beginning with a commentary by director Carl Franklin. Franklin makes pleasant company, and he's chatty enough to keep the track reasonably active with production details from start to finish.
"A Military Mystery" (7:22, SD) is a conversation with author Joe Finder, in which he discusses how apparently pleased he is to see his story come to life on screen.
"FBI Takedown in Union Square" (3:34, SD) incorporates comments by FBI consultant Sue Doucette, though it's mostly brief but interesting B-roll of the shoot.
In "A Different Kind of Justice" (4:58, SD), attorney Alice Cate explains the ins and outs of court martial cases.
"Liar Liar: How to Beat a Polygraph with Sue Doucette" (5:52, SD) delivers on its promise, though in somewhat veiled terms. Doucette largely endorses the usefulness of the polygraph as an interrogation technique, despite its demonstrable inaccuracy.
"The Car Crash" (2:04, SD) finds Franklin guiding us through B-roll footage of the film's main stunt.
"Together Again" (7:31, SD) focuses on the repeat teaming of Judd and Freeman (and their individual merits), with comments from the dynamic duo themselves, Franklin, producer Janet Yang, Jim Caviezel, Adam Scott, and producer Jesse B'Franklin.
Last up is the film's "Theatrical Trailer" (2:27, SD)
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